Dylan Quotes · Page 4

"Like a Rolling Stone" [of Bob Dylan] is a kiss-off song like none before or since.

— Bob Dylan

I love that Bob Dylan asked me to be in the first movie he wrote.

— Val Kilmer

“I’ll have your fucking job for this, you animal-raping, backwoods, hillbilly.”

— Alex Morgan

“Dylan says, if you’re not busy being born, you’re busy dying.”

— Anonymous

Ironically, this was Bob Dylan's period [1967-74] of greatest fame.

— Bob Dylan

Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.

— Walter Isaacson

When I was playing with Bob Dylan in, like, 1966, I was, like, 20 years old.

— Robbie Robertson

That's who I wanted to be like was Bob Dylan.

— Kris Kristofferson

If you wanted to, it would be easy to find some crappy lyrics [of Bob Dylan] from the Eighties to undermine the…

— Bob Dylan

The early Bob Dylan was compulsively drawn to the conflict between stability and the search for immortality.

— Jon Landau

Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I…

— Steve Earle

I was a huge Beatles fan. The Stones, Dylan. Later on, I got into Stevie Wonder, and Bill Withers - he's one…

— Adam Levine

Bob Dylan's first couple of records in the 60's weren't considered cover records, but he only wrote one or two original songs…

— John Mellencamp

I started writing when I was 17. I got an acoustic guitar for my birthday after I discovered Bob Dylan and James Taylor.

— Jason Reeves

“She was very special to me. But I think I'm going to have to get back...so I can. God. So I can…

— Melissa de la Cruz

If they made a movie about Bob Dylan, I would love to play a young Bob Dylan; I mean, I've got the…

— Alex Wolff

There were only a few seats left in coach and Bob found himself seated next to a young female fan. 'I can't…

— Bob Dylan

“We’re freer now, less encumbered by plans, more overwhelmed by the range of available choices, each of us enacting that wonderful line…

— Christopher Noxon

The belief in the '70s was that music was changing the world. I never believed that it had that great an effect.…

— Randy Newman

why can't you just get out of here and leave me alone?"i bellowed. "i can't!" dylan shouted back,his face twisted with an…

— James Patterson

Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever…

— Tom Chapin

I always make this comparison between Bob Dylan and David Simon. Not in the most flattering way possible - these two intellectual…

— James Ransone

Well, I met Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan in the space of 15 minutes. Frank Sinatra kissed me on the lips. He…

— Kate Moss

“There has to be a way. I didn't die in that cave, and Dylan didn't die when he was two, and Teeth…

— Hannah Moskowitz

I have seen quite a few folk whom I know to be both fair minded and, as it happens,[Bob] Dylan fans, take…

— David Bennun

One of my friends was a stage hand at a Bob Dylan show in the mid-90s and I remember him telling me…

— Ian MacKaye

“I had no songs in my repertoire for commercial radio anyway. Songs about debauched bootleggers, mothers that drowned their own children, Cadillacs…

— Bob Dylan

Most of the artists were trying to make a living, trying to get laid, trying to figure out who they were. They…

— David Geffen

In case you guys didn't catch last week's episode, I'm out of the flock," I informed them. "Angel has no allegiance to…

— James Patterson

Abby: "You were great. I don't know what I'd have done without you." Dylan: "You'd have done fine. That's one of the…

— Nora Roberts

"Masters of War" [of Bob Dylan] wasn't peacenik, anti-war stuff. With its minor key and uncompromising final lines ("And I hope that…

— Jay Michaelson

“Our love was dangerous. It was asking me to come with him. It was "South it is, brown eyes." It was dancing…

— Shey Stahl

I've always been amused by [Bob] Dylan; I don't think he's been amused by me.

— Nat Hentoff

Bob Dylan's not a hype and a haircut: he's the real thing.

— Benmont Tench

“Take care of all of your memories. You cannot relive them. Bob Dylan”

— Alm Hlgh

I'm a catalogue artist: I compete with Bob Dylan.

— Courtney Love

[Bob Dylan] is a worthy laureate for the Nobel Prize.

— Sjon

It's always Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Tom Waits for me - the big three.

— Brian Fallon

I'm not that kind of Bob Dylan, tortured creative.

— Ben Barnes

I love Bob Dylan. 'Blood on the Tracks' is one of my top five records.

— Darius Rucker